Saint John of Damascus

Exposition of the Orthodox Faith

8th c.

Classic translation Public domain

Scripture Commentary · English translation, 1890

Contents

• Title Page
• Note
• Prologue
• An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith.
• Book I
• That the Deity is Incomprehensible, and That We Ought Not to Pry Into and…
• Concerning Things Utterable and Things Unutterable, and Things Knowable and…
• Proof That There is a God
• Concerning the Nature of Deity: That it is Incomprehensible
• Proof That God is One and Not Many
• Concerning the Word and the Son of God: a Reasoned Proof
• Concerning the Holy Spirit, a Reasoned Proof
• Concerning the Holy Trinity
• Concerning What is Affirmed About God
• Concerning Divine Union and Separation
• Concerning What is Affirmed About God as Though He Had Body
• Concerning the Same
• Concerning the Place of God: and That the Deity Alone is Uncircumscribed
• The Properties of the Divine Nature
• Book II
• Concerning Æon or Age
• Concerning the Creation
• Concerning Angels
• Concerning the Devil and Demons
• Concerning the Visible Creation
• Concerning the Heaven
• Concerning Light, Fire, the Luminaries, Sun, Moon and Stars
• Concerning Air and Winds
• Concerning the Waters
• Concerning Earth and its Products
• Concerning Paradise
• Concerning Man
• Concerning Pleasures
• Concerning Pain
• Concerning Fear
• Concerning Anger
• Concerning Imagination
• Concerning Sensation
• Concerning Thought
• Concerning Memory
• Concerning Conception and Articulation
• Concerning Passion and Energy
• Concerning Energy
• Concerning What is Voluntary and What is Involuntary
• Concerning What is in Our Own Power, That is, Concerning Free-will
• Concerning Events
• Concerning the Reason of Our Endowment With Free-will
• Concerning What is Not in Our Hands
• Concerning Providence
• Concerning Prescience and Predestination
• Book III
• Concerning the Divine Œconomy and God's Care Over Us, and Concerning Our…
• Concerning the Manner in Which the Word Was Conceived, and Concerning His…
• Concerning Christ's Two Natures, in Opposition to Those Who Hold That He Has…
• Concerning the Manner of the Mutual Communication
• Concerning the Number of the Natures
• That in One of its Subsistences the Divine Nature is United in its Entirety to…
• Concerning the One Compound Subsistence of God the Word
• In Reply to Those Who Ask Whether the Natures of the Lord Are Brought Under a…
• In Reply to the Question Whether There is Nature That Has No Subsistence
• Concerning the Trisagium (“The Thrice Holy”)
• Concerning the Nature as Viewed in Species and in Individual, and Concerning…
• That the Holy Virgin is the Mother of God: an Argument Directed Against the…
• Concerning the Properties of the Two Natures
• Concerning the Volitions and Free-will of Our Lord Jesus Christ
• Concerning the Energies in Our Lord Jesus Christ
• In Reply to Those Who Say “If Man Has Two Natures and Two Energies, Christ Must…
• Concerning the Deification of the Nature of Our Lord's Flesh and of His Will
• Further Concerning Volitions and Free-wills: Minds, Too, and Knowledges and…
• Concerning the Theandric Energy
• Concerning the Natural and Innocent Passions
• Concerning Ignorance and Servitude
• Concerning His Growth
• Concerning His Fear
• Concerning Our Lord's Praying
• Concerning the Appropriation
• Concerning the Passion of Our Lord's Body, and the Impassibility of His Divinity
• Concerning the Fact That the Divinity of the Word Remained Inseparable From the…
• Concerning Corruption and Destruction
• Concerning the Descent to Hades
• Book IV
• Concerning What Followed the Resurrection
• Concerning the Sitting at the Right Hand of the Father
• In Reply to Those Who Say “If Christ Has Two Natures, Either Ye Do Service to…
• Why it Was the Son of God, and Not the Father or the Spirit, That Became Man…
• In Reply to Those Who Ask if Christ's Subsistence is Create or Uncreate
• Concerning the Question, When Christ Was Called
• In Answer to Those Who Enquire Whether the Holy Mother of God Bore Two Natures…
• How the Only-begotten Son of God is Called First-born
• Concerning Faith and Baptism
• Concerning Faith
• Concerning the Cross and Here Further Concerning Faith
• Concerning Worship Towards the East
• Concerning the Holy and Immaculate Mysteries of the Lord
• Concerning Our Lord's Genealogy and Concerning the Holy Mother of God
• Concerning the Honour Due to the Saints and Their Remains
• Concerning Images
• Concerning Scripture
• Regarding the Things Said Concerning Christ
• That God is Not the Cause of Evils
• That There Are Not Two Kingdoms
• The Purpose for Which God in His Foreknowledge Created Persons Who Would Sin…
• Concerning the Law of God and the Law of Sin
• Against the Jews on the Question of the Sabbath
• Concerning Virginity
• Concerning the Circumcision
• Concerning the Antichrist
• Concerning the Resurrection